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Faced with the grewing cession in the film industry (which in this country is on the point of vanishing altogether, and in Europe is scareely better) EMI has launched a programme of 'rationalisation' It is already affecting the studios directly, and in the near future Thames TV workers are to get some of the same treatment.
Last year Bernard Delfont, the day after publicising combine profits of £17m, announced plans to make half the workforce at Elstree Studios redundant.
The leaders of the Federation of Film Unions, after the usual ritual of left-talking, have allowed the redundancies to go through unchallenged. Now Delfont, having announced pre-t x piofits of £35m for last year has declared that the studio will be reduced to a skeleto staff of less than 50 - a tenth of the work-force three years ago.
Only the shameless retreat of the FFU bureaucrats could have made this new EMI offensive possible. And now they run once again to head off any counter-offensive of the work-force.
At the first breath of the word 'occupation' at Elstree, Alan Sappe General Secretary of ACTT, told the workers to 'do nothing as yet' so as not to interrupt the one current production at Elstree, 'Confessions of a Pop Singer' Delfont has been so encouraged by Sapper's utter servility that he has now offered to let the workforce run the studios on a yearly grant of £¼m - precisely the nigure he claims to be losing at Elstree. Why has Delfont made this charitable offer? Because the last film made at Elstree - 'Murder on the Orient Express' - is now well into profit and well on the way to being a block-buster. Big profits are bein made in distribution and exhibitior (which EMI together with Rank
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